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park bench overlooking Hudson River at Weehawken New Jersey.  From there
he even managed to work a station in grid EL-86 thru the tremendous E
skip that was present at the time.

A bit more operating from a hotel room in midtown Manhattan followed
until 15:30 Eastern Daylight Time.  Then a quick drive out to the
airport where Pete, who is a commercial airline pilot, traded his ham
radio microphone and key for the co-pilots seat of a Boeing jetliner.
He then spent the next several hours flying to Salt Lake City Utah.

During the layover, Pete rented a car, unpacked his FT-690 and IC-202
and took to the airwaves.  From 8:45 to 15:30 Mountain Daylight Time hN-
6-Zed-E roved through Grids DN30, 31, 40 and 41 operating both 6 and 2
meters.

He then repacked the gear, got back in the plane and flew it another 689
miles on to Seattle.  Thanks to another hours time change, Pete was back
on the air around 19:52 Pacific Daylight Time in Grid CN-87 from the
airport ramp making two QSO's.  His last contact took place at 19:59
Pacific Daylight Tine.  That was just 1 minute before end of contest.

His totals for the contest period:  On 6 meters he had 16 QSO's, 16 QSO
points and 8 multipliers.  2 meters yielded 24 QSO's, 24 QSO points and
9 multipliers for a grand total of 960 points.

In his posting to the VHF Reflector, Pete put out a special thank you
to the hams in the Salt Lake City area who provided lots of information
for operating sites in 4 grids that helped to make his cross country VHF
roving odyssey, complete.  (ARNewsline, N6ZE)

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